“Aiya…”

“Walking Ghosts? Suppressing Evil? Senior Official?”

This Granny Xia had been silent and gloomy, giving people the creeps with just one look. But now, upon hearing Erguotou's words, she was so shocked that the coarse black cloth she was wearing slipped off, revealing her gray hair and a face full of horror.

In short, she was so scared that her whole demeanor changed.

She hurriedly tried to kneel down and beg for mercy, but suddenly realized, "Crap, I already sent the person down to him…"

“!”

“……”

Then she suddenly yelled, "Old brothers and old sisters, trouble is at the door!"

As she shouted, she covered her face with her sleeve and quickly retreated into the house.

She was afraid that the Walking Ghost would see her face and come looking for her.

Rustling sounds…

Sure enough, with her shout, the yard was suddenly filled with wriggling ghost shadows and strange noises. Inside the jar in the corner, there was the sound of something stretching its body.

Outside the yard, on the locust tree, pale little faces peeked out. In the sand on the ground, bubbles kept rising, and even in the water tank, bubbles began to gurgle.

"Quite a few things, huh?"

Looking at the countless oddities around him, Erguotou laughed and suddenly stood up straight.

One foot on the ground, he turned his body, using his toe to draw a circle around him, then lightly tapped, instantly setting up an altar.

Standing in the center of the altar, he formed a hand seal, and with a gentle wave of his sleeve, countless ghost shadows that had just begun to wriggle in and out of the yard suddenly cried out in unison. They had wanted to pounce on Erguotou, but now they couldn't stop their momentum and were directly pulled out.

One by one, one after another, they were all taken into his sleeve, and with a shake, the cries stopped.

The old granny didn't look back at all, just hurried to feel for the bag of *jinsi taisui* (golden thread fungus) under the bed in the cabinet. Suddenly hearing the movement outside disappear in an instant, she was also terrified.

She turned back and pushed the coarse cloth maid out the door. Holding the bundle, she crashed through the back window and rolled down the gentle slope behind the house.

The maid was pushed out the door, right in front of Erguotou. Seeing that she couldn't escape, she hardened her heart and suddenly became disheveled, her face pale, her lips black, and even her nails suddenly grew more than a foot long, as sharp as knives, and she fiercely clawed at Erguotou's face.

Erguotou raised his hand and pinched her neck, immediately immobilizing her.

Then, he moved his hand up her neck and touched her face, his fingers changing, quickly measuring her mouth, chin, cheekbones, and other places, as if using his knuckles to measure the length and proportions of her face. In a few breaths, he had already figured it out.

With a smile, he looked at the ghost-like maid and said, "So you were already dead, just a living ghost lingering in the human world…"

“…What a pitiful person!”

“……”

The maid was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously wanted to beg for mercy, but then she saw the man with the stubble suddenly change his face, and said gloomily, "It's a pity, judging from the shape of your face… your feet aren't beautiful!"

After saying that, he exerted force on his hand and snapped the living ghost's neck with a crack.

Taking advantage of the other party's limp body, he quickly squatted down, pulled off her cloth shoes, and shook his head repeatedly, "Indeed not beautiful."

……

……

Outside, the old granny rolled down the hillside. In the grass nest was a sedan chair that had been prepared long ago, carried by little ghosts at a fast pace, rushing to a village thirty miles west of Yezhou City outside the mountain.

All that could be seen ahead was darkness. As the little ghosts carried the sedan chair closer, the donkeys in the village, sensitive to the yin qi (ghostly energy), immediately cried out "Eer-a," "Eer-a."

Ignoring others, she directly ordered the little ghosts to enter the village, shouting, "Something bad has happened, something bad has happened…"

"A-Jun, Ke-Jun, Chen San, Chen San, get up quickly, help…"

“……”

"Granny Xue, why are you here so early? Did the Xia family notice something?"

In several houses in the village, oil lamps were quickly lit, and then someone lit torches, and they all came out to meet her.

Judging from their appearance, some carried swords and sabers, and some carried strange things on their bodies, all dressed as *jianghu* (martial world) people, numbering twenty or thirty.

"The Xia family didn't notice, but the Walking Ghost is at the door…"

Granny Xue, not caring to catch her breath, shouted loudly, "It's too late to earn the Xia family's daughter, let's go!"

"Walking Ghost? How many are here?"

"One… no, two, and one has been sent down…"

“……”

Not saying a few words in a hurry, the people in the village were annoyed and angrily said, "Granny Xue, you invited so many fellow daoists over, only saying that after taking the Xia family's girl, you would control her father and earn a large sum of gold and silver to be the capital for our Little Feet Grannies to start a business."

"Now that nothing has even been started, how can you be frightened by a Walking Ghost and want to run?"

“……”

"No, no, I think that Walking Ghost is so powerful, he couldn't be just an ordinary Walking Ghost…"

Granny Xue saw that they were eager to try, as if they wanted to fight, and hurriedly shouted, "Besides, he is still a Senior Official…"

"If we don't leave, I'm afraid the Golden Armor Warrior will come to chop off our heads…"

“……”

"What if he is a Senior Official?"

The leader, A-Jun, sneered, "Who doesn't know that the Walking Ghost's Four Great Senior Officials are a joke?"

Someone next to him said, "Brother A-Jun, your news is slow, I heard that the Walking Ghost's Four Great Senior Officials are all a joke."

"But the little Senior Officials under their hands are all very powerful…"

“……”

The leader was entangled for a moment, unable to make up his mind, but just at this moment, a group of torches suddenly approached in the dark shadows in the distance, and then the sound of horses' hooves was like thunder. A voice in the crowd shouted, "Granny Xue, don't panic, I'm here to help…"

Everyone was stunned, and recognized that it seemed to be the voice of the Xia family's young master, and was immediately dumbfounded, "Is this Xia family's young master so stupid?"

"We are about to plot your family's gold and silver, but you are taking the initiative to come and help?"

“……”

Some people were also overjoyed, "He brought soldiers and horses, which are full of *xueqi* (blood energy), which can just restrain the Walking Ghost!"

But in the panic, no one asked in detail, how did the Xia family's young master come so quickly?

Some people subconsciously thought that Granny Xue had an accident in Yezhou City, so the Xia family's young master knew immediately.

Before they could finish thinking, they saw the group of torches quickly approaching, and a group of brave warriors riding on horses directly dispersed, surrounding the village.

Those who were slow to react were overjoyed, "The Xia family is rich and powerful, and in order to avoid the limelight, they secretly train soldiers in Yezhou, eating good wine and good meat, protected by good weapons and good armor, and rewarded with a lot of money, and trained a good team of private soldiers."

"It's just that they were concerned about the Changsheng Wang (King of Everlasting Victory) of Shengzhou, and they secretly and cautiously didn't dare to be seen by others, but now he is actually willing to pull them all out. What Walking Ghost or evil ghost is a match for such a bloodthirsty army?"

“……”

But in the midst of the surprise, someone suddenly reacted, "That's not right, why are they surrounding us too?"

Before the words fell, they suddenly saw the soldiers and horses surrounding the village. The next moment, they simultaneously drew their bows and nocked their arrows. In an instant, flaming arrows fell like rain, illuminating the surroundings like daylight, followed by the strong smell of burning oil filling their nostrils, and the arrows rained down.

“Aiya…”

Everyone was terrified and avoided the arrows. Granny Xue shouted, "Good apprentice, how could you…"

"Haha…"

In the crowd, a man rode his horse forward two steps. It was the Xia family's young master, who laughed and said, "I know Granny…"

“……”

"Damn it…"

Hearing his words, Granny Xue and the *jianghu* people were terrified, and understood in an instant, "Our affairs are exposed, he probably knew long ago that we were after his family's money and this team of private soldiers…"

In shock and anger, they were all capable *jianghu* people, and no one dared to sit still and wait for death, and they all jumped up, wanting to flee.

Unexpectedly, the soldiers and horses surrounding the village, after firing two waves of arrows, simultaneously raised their spears, four people in a group, with the sound of horses' hooves like thunder, rolling and surging towards the village, the momentum was like trying to lift the roof of the village.

One by one, they were full of *xueqi* (blood energy), and those *jianghu* people who seemed to have their own unique skills were actually stabbed with one blood hole after another as soon as they met.

There were also some brave ones among them, like a New Year's Eve watchman who used a large knife, who had a skill of training the five viscera.

He held a large knife and chopped down four or five warriors on horseback one after another, and was about to rush out of the village and flee, but he was ambushed by the soldiers and horses lurking in the dark night outside, and a fishing net full of fishing hooks came over his head, and wrapped around his body layer by layer.

"A New Year's Eve Watchman? Can't be killed?"

The Xia family's young master sneered, and five steeds galloped over, and iron hooks were attached to his limbs and head respectively.

With a whip, they simultaneously exerted force in five directions, and instantly tore the New Year's Eve watchman into five bloody pieces, none of which were alive.

"How dare you? How dare you?"

The *jianghu* people who gathered around Granny Xue were mostly Dengjie (Ascended Steps), and there were also some who were Refined Residence, but few. Now they were surrounded by this brave and ferocious army and slaughtered, and they were already scared out of their wits. Brother A-Jun shouted desperately, "I am a strategist beside the Changsheng Wang (King of Everlasting Victory) of Shengzhou…"

"You raise private soldiers and harm us, the Changsheng Wang will know, and will definitely…"

“……”

"Changsheng Wang?"

But the playboy riding on the horse picked his ears, blew on them, and sneered, "What the hell is a Wang or not?"

"That's my Mendaolv (Knock-Down Donkey)大哥 (big brother)…"

"Really…"

"If I hadn't attended this gathering, I wouldn't have known that the Changsheng Wang I've been guarding against for three or four years is actually family…"

“……”

“……”

"Fuck…"

As the slaughter began, Erguotou, who was watching from behind the trees in the distance, was shocked and sighed, "Wu Jia Pi (Five Spice Peel) this kid is ruthless… so many *jianghu* people, just slaughtered like chopping melons and vegetables?"

"Battlefield soldiers and horses really restrain the people in the *jianghu*, even me…"

"It would take me an incense stick's time to kill them all!"

“……”

Still not satisfied, he turned around, and then suddenly remembered, "Crap, I was just watching the excitement…"

"My Lao Baigan (Old White Liquor) brother is still…"